Status Updates From LOT 2: The Language of Thou...

“Tokening M(X) pretty generally doesn’t cause want to think its associates; a good thing to since if it did one thinking would be forever, getting derailed by one’s associations…
your cognitive lexicon isn’t network of associations. It’s a system of files… associationism took the thinking out of thinking…”

Yes and that’s why word2vec models are NOT models of natural language semantics

“THERE IS, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE, NO SUCH THING AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF MEANING” (capitalization is from Fodor himself, delightful)

Pretty great so far